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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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A. Column Prepared Especially for Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
NOT TO BE CONQUERED
Not to be conquered by these head-
Long days,
But to stand free; to keep the
mind at brood
On life's deep meaning—nature's
altitude
Of loveliness, and time's mysterious
ways.
• At every thought and deed to clear
the haze
Out of o u r eyes, considering
only rife,
What man, what life, what love,
what beauty is,
This is to live, and win the final
praise.
---Asr3tifiald Lampman.
Wasn't Sunday a wet day? But
'Wouldn't it have delighted the hearts
...of us last July or August. Well, I
didn't even mind it Sunday, except
for the fact that it was a day when I
.didn't need tel stay indoors all day
and I had to do it . But I didn't even
"•etay in all day. During the afternoon
I donned rubbers and a coat and took
a walk around the garden. Looked
how the plants were enjoying the
rain, noted liow brisk some slips were
looking after transplanting, how the
grass was fairly laughing with joy of
the moisture and revelled in the
' thought that all the furrows would
be running water, which would find
its way into the little creeks and dry
river beds. And they in turn will be
Laughing as the water ripples over
the pebbles which have been parched
tend blistering tinder • a merciless sun I
',tali the Summer long.
Sunny daysare enjoyable e
and w
soon tire of rain but the lack of mois-
ture during the past summer should
teach us what a blessing it is and
how unsupportable life would be with-
out it.
But we shall have many, many
sunny days before the winter sets in
and everyone who can do so should
try to spend as much tune outdoors
as possible. During fine,sunny
weather. I consider every hour spent
indoors which might have been spent
out, as so much lost time. House-
wives should try to get a walk in the
sunshine every day sometime. They
can also do many of their household
tasks outdoors, if they will plan it.
In this way they can be storing up
energy from sun end air which will
stand them in good stead during the
long winter, when it is not so pleas-
ant out of doors.
One of the faults of housekeepers
is that they spend too much time in-
side. They get themselves so tired
doing their necessary work that they
have no energy to go for a walk, un-
less they have to do so. But if they
would only makeup their minds that
such a walk, preferably in the middle
of the day when the sun is high, is
necessary to health, they might man-
age it. The telephone is a mighty
handy. thing in the house, but I be-
lieve it works bad magic in the lives
of housewives, cheating them . often
out of a very necessary and helpful
bit of outdoor exercise. But if wo-
tnen'were aroused to the need of a bit
of outdoor exercise each day, winter
and summer, liot or cold, wet or dry,
they would see that they got it, for
health means a lot in their lives.
—REBEKAH.
Innowniiminnolimmonft
(Continued from page 2)
Along The Air Waves
by Russion composers; December, Ita-
lian and French coZiposers; January,
English .composers; February, Cana-
dian composers; Maroh, United States
composers,' and April,music written
by Spanish, Scandinavian, Czechoslo-
• 'vakian and Finnish composers.
"Within the Empire!"
"Within The Empire," a program
which will have its inspiration in the
lives of several hundred million peel-
"
eo" ple, which will present in dramatic
-episode, the story of British subjects
'the veld over, which will reflect the
'spirit, ideals and achievements of
those who owe allegiance to the -Bri-
tish Crown, will snake its debut on the
Canadian air on Friday, October 2, at
'4!.00 p.m. EST, from the Toronto stu-
dois of the Canadian. Radio Commis
0210u.
Sweeping "View of People, Things
Designedto present for the Cana-
• dian listener a ` sweeping panorama
•.of peoples and events, to record the
fortitude and enterprise of British:
amen end'wemen, to chronicle adven-
ture and influence that reaches to
'the four Corriere of the earth, to stim-
ulate a closer bend between the "one
great family" : which . comprises the
%Commonwealth of Nations, "Within
'The Empire' will reflect each week
'characteristic scenes and events
'throughout the empire:
This weekly presentation will ;pro-
, "vide stories of colourful contrast —
'Hong Kong, London; Fiji, Borneo,
Brighton, British West Indies, Van-
• eouver, Melbourne, (tape Town —na-
tional
-na-tional figures and native witch doe -
tors will contribute to the picture
"Which must have them all to truly re -
:fleet the British Empire.
To Be 3leard Each Friday
Thirteen million, nine hundred
'thousand miles of the earth's surface
is British territeoy, fotir hundred and
fifty million people dwell within that
tuna. Men and wereen of every hue,
creed and tongue, owe allegiance to
a fair-haired, boyish looking English-
man who is their Sovereign. It is the
story of these people, jungle hien
and socialites alike, that will be told
each week. The builders and the for-
gotten hien, the news, the culture and
the experience of the common peo-
ple, who have made that Empire,
will be enacted weekly by a large
dramatic cast, supported by a presen-
tation orchestra. The broadcast will
be heard each Friday night over the
national facilities of the Canadian
Radio Commission. •
The Philosophy of "Spent Spinner"
"Spent Spinner," follower and 'tea-,
cher of the philosophy of the late
Isaac Walton, who is heard over the
Canadian Radio Commission, believes
that the only thing wrong With most
people is that they don't do enough
fishing. It isn't, he ;maintains, that
people aren't interested ine fishing
it's just that the effort to get going
dampens their enthusiasm.
It doesn't matter," Spent Spinner"
says, whether your business is on the
blink or if things • are all on the up
and up --there's a good argument for
getting out the tackle and searching
out a spot where a limpid stream.
sings beneath fragrant trees. Fish-
ing is good for a man's perspective—
trouble stops snapping at your 'heels
and becomes a mangy, sulking packal
afraid of its own shadow; and i f
your're overburdened with a sense
of your own dignity and importance,
the first time you tangle with a
fighting fish you'll lose. it -and then
sit on 'a log and seek the fellowship
of other knights of the rod and reel
and enjoy it without recognizing
class distinction.
"For young or: old," he adds, "ang-
ling is an open door to health of
body and mind. In the sunshine and
fresh air with the song of birds and
the evercbanging garb of nature, you
can restock your soul with peace.
And, even if 'in this very chancy
game you don't catch a fish you can
return wealthier for an interesting
day in the oven, bearing a quiet con-
tent that will stay with • you as
months later, you leaf through ang-
ling magazines and tackle catalogues
beside your hearthfire while, the bliz-
zard rages without."
This is "Fish Week," and what
more appropriate than some fish reci-
pes? Here's one for making a sal-
mon dish and others of various kinds:
Canned Salmon In Baking Dish
Toothsome Meal
Canned salmon may be served in a
great many different ways, all of
them excellent, but here is one sug-
gestion:
u -gestion: Serve salmon en casserole.
The ingredients needed are a cup of
cooked rice,.a pound can of Canadian
salmon, two eggs, a third of a cup
of milk, a tablespoon of butter, a
pinch of salt, and, if it's at hand, a
(lash of paprika
After the rice has been cooked and
has• become cold, most of it us used
to line a baking dish but a little of
it is put to one side for a later pur-
pose. Then the eggs are beaten and
the milk, butter, salt, and paprika are
added to them. After that the mix-
ture is stirred lightly into the sal-
mon, which should first have been
flaked, and the whole .is poured into
the baking dish. Over. the top of the
mixture the remaining rice is laid, the
cover is put on the casserole which is
then put into the oven for an hour's
cooking time, A. white sauce should
be served with the fish.
Fish.
To Prepare.—Fish should be well
washed inside and out, dried with a
clean cloth, rubbed with salt, and put
on the ice until ready for cooking.
To Fry.—Flour the fish well and
hip in beaten egg and breadcrumbs.
The fat must be boiling hot when
the fish is put on, and it must be
kept at boiling point while the fish
browns first on one side, then on the
other.
Eat for Frying may be dripping,
lard or both combined, olive oil, or
tried preparations sold for the pur-
pose. The fat of salt pork melted
down is also excellent.
To Bake.—The oven must be hot.
About 10 minutes to the pound may
be allowed in baking dish.
Brush over with beaten egg, and
cover lightly with fine breadcrumbs
before putting in the oven.
Fish may be baked with richer re-
sults by sprinkling on the baking tin
minced onion, parsley, pepper and
salt, and adding over these either
melted butter or olive oil. Lay the
fish on this, and some of the same in-
gredients may be sprinkled over it.
To Bake in Milk.—Remove the skin
of the fish and wash well. Season
with pepper and salt, place it in a
deep buttered dish, put on bits of
butter or dripping and nearly cover
with milk. Put a cover over it and
allow it to stew gently for about an
hour.
N.B.—Any kind of white fish is de-
licious cooked in this way, and is
easier to digest than when fried. Do
not stuff fish which are being baked
in .milk.
A Good Stuffing for Baked Fish is
made of rather less than a pint of
grated dry bread bound together with
a well -beaten egg, a dessertspoonful
of butter, and a small onion finely
minced, a tablespoonful of chopped
parsley, and salt and pepper.
To Marinade is to soak in oil and
vinegar. '
Slice some cold boiled fish and lay
the pieces in a pie -dish.
Mix together—
An equal quantity of vinegar and
of the water in which the fish was
boiled. Some salad oil. A fewslices
of onion. 1 slice of lemon or line. 1
or 2 bay leaves. A few cloves and
peppercorns. Pepper and salt.
Let the fish soak in this for an
hour or two, turning it occasionally.
Afterwards strain the liquid • a n d
serve it with the fish.
N.B.—Fried fish may be done in
the same way.
To Boil.—Fish shoeld be put into
water that has reached boiling point,
as in coming to a boil much of the
nutriment of the fish is likely to be
extracted. The water should boil con-
tinuously, but not too violently until
the fish is cooked. There should be
sufficient water to cover the. fish. The
water should, be moderately salted.
A'tablespoonful of vinegar added
to the water will make the fish firm
and white.
A few bay leaves in the water will
give the fish a pleasant flavour.
Time Required for Boiling. -It is
difficult to state exactly the time re-
quired for all kinds of .fish, but from
about 15 to 20 minutes to each pound
will generally be enough.
Sauces that go well with boiled fish.
are: Caper,`Tartare; Oyster, Shrimp,
Edited by Rebekah.
AUTUMN WORK IN TIIE
GARDEN "
As soon as the tops of the plants
are frozen or have died off, they
should be removed and burned. If
the tops of perennial plants are left
on the bed all winter there is dam -
ger that they, may harbour disease
spores and ineeets which may have
been present on the plants. As soon
as the ground' is frozen a mulch .of
old manure, straw or evergreen
branches can be applied to help • to
hold the snow. Sometimes the sterns
of the plants are left for this pur-
pose but it is not recommended.
Some plants which are frequently at-
tacked by slugs can be protected by
covering the crown with old coal
ashes. The same thing is useful
around foxgloves and hollyhocks to
prevent water standing in the crowns
and then freezing. If the leaves of
hollyhocks and' foxgloves are very
numerous some of them can be re-
moved.
September and October are the
months when 'spring flowering bulbs
are planted and clumps of them in a
perennial border are greatly appre-
ciated in spring. Besides Daffodils
and Tulips which can be obtained in
many varieties and colours there
are other attractive bulbous plants
such as Chionodoxa — Glory of the
Snow, Scilla sibirica—Siberian Squill
both of which have blue flowers. Cro-
cus which can be obtained in white,
yellow and "purple varieties: These
are amongst the earliest of flowers
to bloom in the spring. Muscari —
Grape Hyacinth with dark blue
flowers like a hyacinth in Miniature
bloom a little later.
Lilies are also grown from bulbs
which should be planted in October.
Some of the best and easiest to grow
are L. amabile, L. Tonuifolium, L. re-
gale; L. Willmottiae and L. Henryi.
(Continued from page 3)
AN INTERESTING TRAVEL
STORY
were all sick. We who were a
climax came at lunch. While we
bit seasoned to such doings managed
to weather it without difficulty. The
were eating and keeping aneye on
knives and glasses' etc. at the same
time, there came one lurch that sent
the -silverware flying all over the
floor; and one man who had just be-
gun on his main course suddenly
found his food anywhere but on his
plate, and himself enjoying a show-
er bath of beer. Most of the dishes
on that table slid off, and some were
broken. Of course a general uproar
followed. One little boy began to
cry with fright and his brother ran
away from the table saying "I'm not
going back to that table." - Everyone
laughed, the stewards scrambled to
reclaim the silverware and reset
some of the tables, and we settled
downs to finish lunch. Soon after that
things calmed down as we were
about to enter the harbour of Santos.
There are only 12 passengers left
on board now including the three
kiddies. The rest got off at Rio or
Santos. We are counting the days
now until we reach B.A.; only three
more now, as they tell us we shall
probably get in Tuesday instead of
Wednesday. I've enjoyed the trip
very much as I always do an ocean.
voyage: I love the water. But it
will be good now to, get back and
see the friends waiting for us, and
pick up once more the thread of our
work there. • - -
•
Hollandaise, Cream, Egg, Tomato and
Anchovy.
Fish Toast
Soma cold cooked fish
Yolk of 1 egg
Butter
A little cream or milk
Pepper and salt
A pinch of mace
1 small onion chopped
Some . chopped parsley
Hot buttered. toast.
Take the remains of any cold fish,
pound well with butter, pepper, a
pinch of mace, a little ' chopped onion,
parsley and salt. Mix well with some
cream or milk, warm it in a pan over
the fire, and stir in the yolk of an
egg. Put it on to hot -buttered toast
piled high (it must be thick enough to
stand), sprinkle over with bread -
crumbs, pour a little clarified butter
on the top, and brown in the oven,
And as of course you never serve' a,
sweet dessert after fish, what could
be nicer after your fish dinner than
an apple dessert? . Hese is a recipe
for steamed' apples which go nicely
with plaintea biscuit or, if the first.
course has been substantial, a cookie
may be eaten with it:
Core and quarter apples, red if you
have them, and remove blemishes but
do not peel. Arrange' in a dish in
layers, sprinkling 'a thin layer of al,
gar over each and a dust of nutmeg or
cinnamon Put in steamer and steam
over boiling water until tender. Some
apples take longerthan others to
codlc. Serve either hot or cold.
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND LIFE.
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INSURANCE COMPANIES
IN CANADA'
MAIMERS, CRIPPLERS
AND KILLERS
There is a lion without: - I shall be
slain in the streets.
—Book of Proverbs."
At early and later ages of life, in
the first half and the second half,' in
City and country,in backward and
progressive ocmmunities, among peo-
ples savage or primitive, or crude or
more civilized, from blazing tropics
to Arctic snows, what the the chief
manners, cripplers and killers of the
race?
In the earliest days the primitive
peoples kept some kind of health by
moving away from their accumulated
camp dirt, and by keeping away
strangers who might bring strange
diseases. A primitive community in
its isolation had few kinds of dis-
ease; a modern civilized community
by it's travel and trade has gather-
ed many. Primitive peoples had a
sense of safety in their isolation, and
an adventurer from another tribe who
would break that isolation they were
inclined to meet at the bounds of
their settlement, with a club. Modern
people deal with disease not by isola-
tion but by Science.
In the middle ages, when the pro-
tection that isolation gave had been
largely lost and the protection that
Science gives had not yet been gain-
ed, the people were in a.bad way, -It
was a strange year when there was
not a plague or a pestilence some-
where While we speak of the Great
Plague as having struck Londin in
1665, when among less than half a
million people the deaths rose to
eight thousand or more a week, it is
true that the Plague had been en-
Oemic, that is constantly more or less
active, with considerable death rates
in London, for sixty years before
that. 1
The middle ages were truly pestil-
ence -ridden; so are many places in
the world today. In spite of Pasteur
and Lister, Koch and Ronald Ross in
many regions still the infections are
the great toll -gatherers for Death. In
the tropics, except where they are
well health -officered, as in the Pan-
ama Canal zone, malaria is the great-
est menace to life and health, and to
industry as well. It was malaria by
the way, more than anything else
that knocked the physical and mental
and moral bottoms out of the glory
that was Greece. As it spread, even
the literature shows deterioration
and growing pessimism. While mal-
aria in Canada is negligible, yet Os-
ler thought, the whole world over, it
is today the greatest killer and maim-
er of the race. Tuberculosis, consump-
tion, the Great White Plague was for
centuries "Captainof the Men of
Death" in many countries. Now in a
couple of generations, the captain is
reduced to a corporal or less, though
still Field -Marshall • or Commander -
in -Chief in many igonrant, low -living,
poverty -depressed communities such
as those of dui• half -primitive but
house -dwelling Indians: They live in.
houses but ' don't know . how. In
Manitoba the Indian death -rate from
tuberculosis is twenty-four times that
of the un -nixed whites.
In some pitiful places of the earth,
such as the Yellow River Valley of
China, hunger . still snipes by retail,
asit has done among all primitive
peoples whose living depended upon
the happy chances of the hunter, and
still slaughters by wholesale in times
of flood and calamity. In Russia in
the past five years estimates of
deaths from famine range from three
to fifteen millions.
Our "own boasted civilizations,
which in many ways have .little
enough to boast of, have their own
lsiilers, manners and cripplers. Or-
dinary people like ourselves can lose
health and vigor and even -life by eat-
ing -or slimming—not wisely but too
well. From streets and highways the
demon speed vomits into hospitals
the broken bodies of young and old
Too often booze -lighted morons are at
the wheels. And a -Great War, monu-
mentally stupid, with giant sythe,
lays many millions of lusty youth, a
needless and world -devastating 'har-
vest, in the rotting swaths and wind-
rows of horrid death.
•Which, then, is the greatest killer
or manner or crippler of them all?
After all,' the world is wide and the
ways men live and die are very var-
ious, so that this evil pre-eminence
can scarcely be adjudicated.
•
Questions concerning health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As -
sedation, 184 College St., Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter
HEALTH
CARE OF CHILDREN
TIIIS MODEST • CORNER 'IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Somethnes Sad'— But :always Helpful
and Ins piling
ANTICIPATION
A jolly occupation " For dreary winter hours
Is thumbing colored "catalogues
And planning summer flowers. -
-The Country Gentleman.
THE CIiEERFUL CHERUB
True pride is really modest
—
And when I brag at length
I'm really hiding weakness .
Instead - of showing strength.
THE FIRM FAITH
I will not doubt though all my ships
at sea •
Conte drifting home with broken
masts and sails,
I shall believe the Hand which never
fails,
From seeming evil worketh good
for me;
And though I weep because those
sails are battered,
Still will I' cry, while my best hopes
lie shattered—
"I trust in Thee?'
—Author Unknown.
OVER HILL, OVER DALE
Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats, spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favors,
In those freckles live their savors;
I must go seek some dewdrops here;
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's
ear.
—William Shakespeare.
OCTOBER
October, with a lavish hand, n o w
spills
Her wine of flame and gold upon the
hills:
It splashes on the slopes and blends
into
Rich colorings of almost every hue:
Deep red and russet, orange, yelllow
jade,
Grape -blue and green and brown of
every shade.
And in the valley hang, like filthy
mist,
Her veils of opal, blue and amethyst,
Rose -Gray and violet, until it seems
All earth is drowsy with the wine of
dreams.
I think that somewhere up around
the Thrown
God's cup of glory must .have over-
flown, '
—James Courtney Challis.
THE TONGUE
"The boneless tongue, so small and
weak,
Can crush. and kill," declares the
Greek.
"T h e tongue destroys a greater
horde,"
The Turk asserts, "than does the
Sword."
The Persian proverb wisely saith,
"A lengthy tongue -an early death!"
Or sometimes takes this forth instead,
"Don't let your tongue cut off your
head."
"The tongue can speak a word whose
speed,"
Say the Chinese, 'outstrips t h e
steed."
And Arab sages this impart,
"The tongue's' great storehouse is the
heart." - -
From Hebrew wit the maxim sprung,,
"Though feet should slip, ne'er let the
tongue." -
The sacral writer crowns the whole,
"Who keeps his tongue doth keep his
soul?' -
SONG OF THE LOCUST
Shrill and high,inthe-summer noon,
Cleaving the silence everywhere,
Over the fields a vibrant tune
Startles the drbwsy, dreaming air.
Glittering notes in a rasping scale,
Swiftly the sharp tune fades away,
Leaving an echo keen as a flail, .
Searing the placid face of day.
Hear, then, the locust in a tall pine's
zest,
Filing a summer day in two!
-Arthur Wallace Peach in Christian'
Science Monitor.
SOLITUDE•
Here, where the purple light upon
the heather -
Lies soft across the moorland's sleep-
ing breast, -
Where shadowed clouds of blue are
slowly stealing
To steep the heat of day in quiet rest
Here, there is space wherein my mind
may wander
And stretching out, lose sightoftoil,
some care,
Where Beauty calls my soul to kneel
in worship
And find a peace that Nature bids me,
share.
Here, I can live and breathe amidst
the stillness
While wading deep amongst the frag-
rant sea, -
And listen to the countless spirit
voices
That thob within the silence, calling
rue.
—Edith A. Vassie.
THE MYSTERY OF THE YEAR
A little while, a year agone,
I iceew her for a romping child, 1
A dimple and a glance that shone
With idle mischief when she smiled.
Today she passed me in the press,
And, turning with a quick surprise,
I wondered at her stateliness,
I wondered at her altered eyes.
To me the street was just the same,
The people and the city's stir;
But life had kindled into flame,
And all the world had changed for
her.
I watched her in the crowded ways, -
A noble form, a queenly head,
With all the women in her gaze,
The conscious woman in her tread.
—Archibald Lampman.
AUTUMN IN T1EFI WOOD
Here tinted autumn leaves are loosely
flying,
Tumbling in galaxies of splendor
lightly around, -
Eagerly hurrying and hustling, with
each other vieing, -
Rustling together as they reach the
ground;,
Painting vermillion checkers where
beaded lizards slumber,—
Guardian sphinxes on a mossy boul-
der;
Decking and gilding the sumac's fad-
ed timber;
Lavishly brightening a world becom-
ing older.
' And here a russet 'carpet of ramenta:
crackles,
Startling a partridge to an importun-
ate drumming,
Clucking and angrily strutting with
uplifted hackles,
Or to burst of sudden flight on pin-
ions humming.
And deeper in the shadowed maze of
cedars
Noisily the squirrel and chipmunk
claim a trifle,
Chattering and bickering, over -zeal-
ous leaders, -
Setting the world agog to flee the
hunter's rifle!
--J. W. Rief.
SCRIPTURE CAKE
Here is an idea that might help
some lady who is trying to make a.
little talent money for her church or •
missionary society. It is a Scripture
cake and could be sold at five cents a
slice with, the recipe attached. ,.It
would lead to some searching of the
Scriptures:
1 cup butter—Judges 5:25.
8 1-4 cups fluor -I Kings 4.22.
2 :cups sugar—Jeremiah 6:20.
2 cups raisins—I Samuel 30:12.
2 cups figs—I Samuel 30:12.
1 cup water—Genesis 24:17.
1 cup almonds—Genesis 43:11.
6-eggs—Isaiah 10:14. -
Little. Salt—Leviticus 2:13.
1 large spoon honey—Exodus' 16:
31.
Sweet spices to. taste—I Dings: 10:
�2•
Follow Solomon's advice for mak.
ing good boys and you will be sure tel
have a good cake—Proverbs - 23:14.
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